What is the Latin word for fraud?

The usual Latin words for “fraud” are fraus, fraudātiō, dolor; also fallāx, ars, māchina. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“fraud” in Latin

frauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harm fraudātiōThe act of cheating, deceiving or defrauding; deceit, fraud.dolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeance fallāxdeceptive, deceitful; fallacious, spurious arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem māchinacontrivance; war machine, military engine, siege engine; scaffold circumscrīptiōcircle, circumference; boundary, outline, contour; cheating, fraud errōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistake

The English word fraud itself goes back to Latin fraus.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

fraud

fraus: fraudatio: dolus malus, or dolus only: fallacia. (The words are found in this connection and order.) doli atque fallaciae: ars: artes: machinae [SYN. in DECEIT]: circumscriptio (a drawing a line, as it were, round anybody, that he may not escape; hence imposition, especially upon young people): error (error, deception, instead of which fraus also is used). Without fraud, sine fraude: full of fraud (of persons) [Vid: FRAUDULENT]: to commit a fraud, fraudem inferre: to intend or meditate fraud, fraudem moliri; dolum parare, commoliri; aliquid ad fallendum instruere: to be guilty of a fraud in anything, fallaciam in re facere: to practise a fraud against anybody, fraudem alicui facere; dolum alicui struere, nectere, confingere; fabricam fingere in aliquem; tragulam in aliquem conficere; technis aliquem fallere (the last three comical): to practise a similar fraud, consimilem ludere lusum (comedy): to try to practise a fraud against anybody, fraude aliquem tentare; fallaciam in aliquem intendere: there is some or no fraud in the matter, aliquid or nihil doli subest: to be condemned for practising fraud, falsi damnari.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for fraud?: The usual Latin words for “fraud” are fraus, fraudātiō, dolor; also fallāx, ars, māchina. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.